... If that is rendered as a bitmap at 600 DPI (dots-per-inch), it presents an image 79200 x 18000= 1425600000 dots or 1425 Megapixels. A typical image from a good DSLR camera is 24 Megapixels. So it's obvious that any software which converts the EMF to a bitmap at the native recorded size is going to struggle. It's equivalent to displaying 60 such camera images simultaneously. But as a metafile it loads quickly into the Sketchboard and zooms and pans almost instantly. This is the T2 sketchboard: 2_092043_300000000.png The reason being that the sketchboard ignores the original recorded size of the metafile (other than to calculate the aspect ratio), and waits for you to drag the rectangle into which you want it to be drawn. What does all this tech stuff mean? It means I can get the print-pages preview function into T3 for Paul. It means I can see a way forward to providing the sketchboard in T3 by means of a separate helper exe. Ditto and likewise the PDF exports. I will get the print ...